Half of flat-faced dogs require surgery to help them to breathe

Breathing difficulties with brachycephalic flat-faced dogs

Flat-faced dogs such as the French bulldog have brachycephalic skulls. Their muzzles are substantially shortened. This alters their internal anatomy. This, in turn, makes it harder to breathe. And it is so bad that Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (Battersea) have operated on 244 flat-faced …

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Sweetest Shih Tzu was so badly neglected he no longer resembled a dog and smelt of rotten flesh

NEWS AND COMMENT-SINGAPORE: This is an extraordinary story of animal neglect. The owners of this elderly Shih Tzu calmly walked into an animal rescue in Singapore, HOPE Dog Rescue Singapore, and relinquished him. They appeared to have been totally blind to the fact that they …

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